Big Pulpit

Praise for & Prose from St. Leo the Great, Pope & Doctor – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scp

Country Music’s Raye of Hope – Terence Jeffrey, Crisis Magazine

Muslim Students Reject Human Toothache Banzhaf – Mark Shea, Patheos/CAEI!

22 Martyrs of Spanish Civil War to be Beatified – Nieves San Martin, Zenit

Nonprofit System Founded by Priest Helps Youths Dream the Future – M. Eidemiller, OSV

Cairo’s Christians Worry about Egypt’s Next Chapter – David Ignatius, Washington Post

Arab Christian US Enclaves Grow as Muslim Violence Increases – R. Contreras, Hou Chron

Fans Unite to Kill Bill to End Sectarianism – Jill Duchess of Hamilton, Catholic Herald

On an Unfriendly Post Against Spanking – Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Onward, Christian Soldiers – J. Matt Barber, Catholic Lane

The Reckless, Profitable Elimination of Down Syndrome – Mark W. Leach, Public Discourse

The ABC’s of Sex Trafficking Grants: ”Anybody But Catholics” – Bob Laird, HLI America

Communion on the Tongue and Pope St. Leo the Great – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

What’s So Great About Catholicism? – H. W. Crocker III, Crisis Magazine

What’s the State Interest in Promoting Gay Marriage? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

CNN’s ‘Belief Blog’: Good Catholics Accept Homosexuality – Paul Wilson, NewsBusters

What’s at Stake in Conscience Debate – Our Sunday Visitor

Homosexual Anti-Christian Indoctrination is Massachusetts Law – New Oxford Review

The Pope’s Aching Joints; The Vatican’s Odd Silence – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Just Wait Til You Have Children – Devin Rose, VirtuousPla.net

A President’s Prayer and Today’s Culture Wars – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

The Pope who Persuaded Attila the Hun to Spare Rome – Catholic Herald

Financial “Note” Blowback, Peace Office Under Lockdown – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Leo the First: 1550 Years Old & Still Affecting You Today – Stephen Masty, TIC

Vatican, Biotech Firm Aim for Stem Cell Paradigm Shift – Brian Fraga, Our Sunday Visitor

A Reflection on the Saints – Bob Waruszewski, VirtuousPla.net

The Quest to Know – Tom Martin, New Oxford Review

My Pagan Passion – Ralph McInerny, Crisis Magazine

Grandson’s Generation Will Struggle for Christian Values – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Western Civilization Ends with a Whimper – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

What Will They Tax Next? Your Christmas Tree, Seriously – Mary D. Poust, OSV Daily Take

The Wisdom of Others: “Changing Minds, Saving Lives” – Arland K. Nichols, HLI America

Excommunicated Nun Accepts Award for Abortion Decision – Matthew Archbold, Cr Mn Rp

Bye-Bye Berlusconi! – Jennifer Roche, Catholic Vote

Sudan & South Sudan on the Brink of War, Bishops Warn – EWTN News

Nicholas Kristof & Toddlers: When You Really Need a Fact Checker – Susan E. Wills, Pb Ds

Catholic Artists Society: Solemn Vespers & Lecture on Beauty – Shawn Tribe, New Lit Mov

Sir Jimmy Savile and his Catholic Faith – Fr. Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

Curtain Time for the Revised Mass – Our Sunday Visitor

New Translation Objections Are Becoming More Ridiculous – LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

The “Other Girls” – Rachel Howell, VirtuousPla.net

Joe Pa, Meet Cardinal Law – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Are All Football Coaches Perverts? – Joshua Mercer, Catholic Vote

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Reform or Bust – Rey Flores, Crisis Mgzn

Destroyer of Worlds: Indian Iconoclasm – George Conger, Get Religion

In Italy, Gain and Loss in the Struggle for Life – Josephine Quintavalle, MercatorNet

The Gnostic Traditionalist – Thaddeus Kozinski, New Oxford Review

The Coptic Winter – Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute

How Catholics can Reclaim the American Feast of Thanksgiving – John Norton, Our Sun Vis

Having Many Beautiful Rites is a Part of Being Catholic – Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

Works (Scary!) Based Religion? – Brent Stubbs, Almost Not Catholic

Nourishing Your Spiritual Life – Julie Rodrigues,VirtuousPla.net

The Horror of the Duggars – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Newt, Marriage, and the Presidency – Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

Selective Memory, Collective Guilt: The Jews & Pope Pius XII – Paul Michael Ferguson, NOR

A Different & Extraordinary Advent this Year – Mike Aquilina, St. Paul Cntr for Bblcl Thlgy

Fewer Democrats Tend to be Churchgoers, Gallup Survey Says – Kevin J. Jones, CNA

Evangelicals Woo Brazil’s Upwardly Mobile Catholics – Matias Spektor, Intrntnl Hrld Trbn

Parents: Beware the Danger of Peer Orientation – Jennifer Fulwiler, National Cthlc Register

Taking the Long View – Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Atheist Convert: Jennifer Fulwiler – Jennifer Fulwiler, Why I’m Catholic

Meaningless Art – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Abp. Dolan Issues Decree: No Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in N.Y. Archdiocese – EWTN News

A Canonical Look at Archbishop Dolan’s Decree – Dr. Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

Abp. Dolan Decrees No Same-Sex “Marriages” in Churches & Properties – Th. Baklinski, LSN

Obama Promulgates Tax Christmas Trees – Pat Archbold, National Catholic Register

Why We Must Stop Handing The Church To the State – Thomas Peters, Cth Vt/AmP

Benedict XV, Rudyard Kipling, John Bunyan & G.K. Chesterton – Donald R. McClarey, TAC

Are You Free of Modernist Ideas? – Jared Dale Combista, VirtuousPla.net

Must the Roman Curia be Italian? – George Weigel, Crisis Magazine

Purgatory and the Role of Mary as Plenipotentiary – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Waking Up Catholic: From Protestantism to Catholicism – Michael Larson, NOR

Syriac Catholic Patriarch Warns West of Sectarian Violence in Middle East – D.A. Raad, DR

St. Martin of Tours, and Our Own Call to Courage – Dan Burke, National Catholic Register

Austria: Sidewalk Counseling Criminalized – Peter Baklinski, LifeSiteNews.com

The Natural Law and Judges – Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Being Human in an Age of Unbelief – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap, Public Dscrs

The Mozarabic Rite: “Canon” to Communion and Dismissal – Shawn Tribe, Nw Ltrgcl Mvmnt

Combating Cultural Vandalism: The Scottish Example – New Oxford Review

20 Kids & Counting! Mama Duggar Announces She’s Pregnant Again – Rebecca Dube, Today

A Beer Blessing, In Case You Need Another Reason to be Catholic – Marc Barnes, Bad Cthlc

Black Must Come Back (in the Liturgy) – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Education = Virtue – Anna Williams, VirtuousPla.net

Continuing in Austria: Modernist Abuse of Vatican II – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

German Bishops Publish Porn? – Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register

The Devil and Daniel Avila – Jay Boyd, Philothea on Phire

Toasted Worms and Spiritual Miss-Direction – Elise, Kissing the Leper

Is Multiculturalism Evil? – Robert Spencer, Crisis Magazine

What I Love About the Catholic Church – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Rush Limbaugh vs. The Classics – DarwinCatholic, The American Catholic

Whistleblower alleges TX P.P. Committed Massive Medicaid Fraud – Jill Stanek, LSN

Muslims Kill 150 In Nigeria – Joel Duku, Damarutu & Gbade Ogunwale, Persecution.org

Muslim Prayers of Hate Towards Christians & Jews – Raymond Ibrahim, PJ Media

Have You No Sense of Decency, Gov. Andrew Cuomo – Tony Layne, Outside the Asylum

Bishop Conley sees Atheocracy as Major Threat to Pro-Life Cause – Kevin J. Jones, CNA

Clarence Thomas says Religious Display Rulings are in “Shambles” – Michelle Bauman, CNA

Egypt Arresting Copts for Maspero Massacre – Mary Abdelmassih, Persecution.org

Obamacare: Does the Catholic Church Still Count? – Kenneth D. Whitehead, NOR

Town Clerks Bullied over New York Gay Marriage Law – Efrem Graham, CBN.com

Indonesia: Muslims Destroying Non-Islamic Statutes – Michelangelo Nasca, La Stampa

Working and Witnessing Quietly Amid a Culture of Death – Brian Caulfield, Daily Register

Good Friday: A Ballad – Kathryn Husing, Dappled Things

U.S.: Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Conference – Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice

“Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven” (DVD) – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Jesuit-Run Loyola University (Chicago) Stages Drag Show – Kathleen Gilbert, Life Site News

Pres. Obama objects to FDR’s D-Day prayer at the World War II Memorial – Fr. Z, WDTPRS?

Why Catholic Feminists Are Wrong About Women’s Ordination – Anne B. Gardiner, NOR

Argentina: Censorship of Christians on the Web – Marco Tosatti, La Stampa/Vatican Insdr

Cardinal Ravasi Tells Priests to Start Tweeting – Brandon Vogt, The Thin Veil

The Achilles’ Heel of Orthodoxy – Devin Rose, St. Joseph’s Vanguard

Spiritual Battles in a Spiritual War – JC Sanders, VirtuousPla.net

Why is Fr. Jenkins still Defending his Invitation to Obama? – Cardinal Nwmn Scty/Cmps Nts

The Thomas More Legal Centre – Mac McLernon, Mulier Fortis

The Assumption in Church History – Brent Stubbs, Almost Not Catholic

Jesuit-Run University of San Francisco Honors Enemy of Marriage – Cal Catholic Daily

Altar Boys: The Problem or the Solution? – Ken Skuba, New Oxford Review

New Translation: Eucharistic Prayer 4, Pt. 4, Anamnesis & 2nd Epiclesis – J. Tawney, RLE

Moral Theologian Voices Concern over CCHD Grant Process – Kathleen Gilbert, Lf St Nws

A Portrait of Dietrich Von Hildebrand – Tom Howard, Crisis Magazine

On Infants & Unborn Babies Who Die Without Being Baptized – Jay Boyd PhD, Phlth on Phr

They Shall Be Called Anglo Catholics – The Catholic Knight

Anglican Sisters Are First Episcopal Order to Convert – Michelle Bauman, EWTN News

The Recovery of Reason – George Neumayr, Catholic World Report

Limbo is a Reason to Hope – Stacy Trasancos PhD, Accepting Abundance

Lord, When? – Sarah Babbs, VirtuousPla.net

Why has Tesco Thrown Weight Behind a Gay Pride Event? – Francis Phillips, Cthlc Herald

German Bishops Publish Pornographic Novels – Tony Paterson, Independent

Australian World Youth Day Pilgrims Still Clog Aussie Courts – Jared Owens, The Australian

Heute England! – Mark Shea, Patheos/Catholic and Enjoying It!

Andrew Cuomo calls New York Catholics “Un-American” – Patrick B. Craine, Life Site News

Say, What’s a “Fertilized Egg” Anyway? – Matthew Archbold, National Catholic Register

Things A Catholic Ought Never Say – LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy